Falling Skies begins six months after a global invasion by extraterrestrials, where in early days, the invaders neutralized the world’s power grid and technology, defeated and largely destroyed all the world’s militaries, and killed over 90% of the human population by destroying all of the world’s major cities and capitals.Falling Skies Season 1-5 Download.
The aliens include mechanical attack drones called “mechs“; a species of light brown-skinned six-legged beings known as “Skitters” that appear to control the mechs; and a mysterious species known as the Overlords, or “Espheni”, presumably the actual engineers of the invasion and the masters of the Skitters.
The aliens’ objectives are not explained until season 4. They plan to extract helium-3 from Earth’s moon to power their technology, and to use humanity as an enslaved frontline army in their war with another alien race. To do this, the aliens round up children between the ages of 8 and 18 and attach a biomechanical mind control harness to their spines. Forcibly removing it generally kills the child, but midway through season 1, a surgical method is developed that allows a harness to be safely removed, leaving in place the “spikes” that connected the harness to the spinal column. In Season 5, it is revealed through an Espheni communication device—which Ben can interact with by touching it, due to having the spikes—that there is a being superior to the Overlords, known as “the Queen”. In the series finale, the Queen explains that the invasion upon which the entire series is based is the result of a prior Espheni attempt to invade Earth, the only habitable planet in this galaxy and thus of immeasurable strategic importance. Her beloved daughter led that invasion, but the Espheni underestimated humanity and the invasion was stopped. The Queen’s daughter was killed and eaten, so the Queen swore to wipe out humanity in revenge.
The story follows a group of survivors who band together to fight back.